The bottom line
This record preserves Megatrend #27 from the original 2025 series and its 2026 retrospective as an archival geopolitical thesis about U.S. research and innovation positioning.
Why it matters
Because this is a political and geopolitical claim, futurist.info should treat the original posts as historical foresight artifacts rather than presenting the thesis as a current factual verdict without separate, up-to-date verification.
From the foresight archive
Jim Carroll first published this as Megatrend #27 on 2025-08-08. He revisited it one year later on 2026-09-11, using the retrospective to test the original call against what had happened since.
This page is intentionally draft. It preserves the original series entry and retrospective in the knowledge graph, while avoiding publication of a present-day political or geopolitical conclusion without a separate current-source review.